Fame Quotes

2089 Fame quotes by 1424 unique authors

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright… — Logan Pearsall Smith
Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place. — Samuel Johnson
I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp. — John Cheever
I've signed dicks, asses, parole cards, a colostomy bag while it was still pumping. A couple of years ago, I signed a bloody Tampax. That's… — John Waters
Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring. — Robert Burns
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and… — Leonardo da Vinci
Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you live for fame, men may turn against you. — Matthew Simpson
If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm… — Oliver Sacks
I had it all and blew it. — Mickey Mantle
The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies. — Arthur Miller
It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame. — Roger Ebert
I'm still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then life suddenly… — Lee Iacocca
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to… — Jane Haddam
Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all… — William Saroyan
Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant… — Frank Zappa
Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a… — George Brett
Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men… — Phyllis McGinley
Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its… — Richard M. Nixon
I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning… — Eddie Van Halen
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the… — Eddie Van Halen
Fame's carapace does not allow for easy breathing. — Joyce Carol Oates
There is no faster way of destroying a man, or mocking his ideas, than making him fashionable. — Paul Theroux

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